Fiat S76 - Bodywork

Exciting times ahead as the bodywork is being shaped and fitted. Unfortunately I only had time to do this quick lunchtime sketch...

C Type Jaguar - iPad

Here's the more graphic treatment of the car I did the watercolour of. I used Adobe Ideas to sketch it then exported the layers into photoshop for some tweaking of the colours. Still can't decide which background colour is best. Probably blue, followed by red...

Cowboys

I watched Pale Rider again last night - what a great film. Here's Stockburn the baddy played by John Russell. I had to do it pretty much from memory as he got shot soon after I started. There's something that doesn't usually happen in life drawing. Done with sketchbook pro on the iPad.

Moe and Les

Here's a few character designs for a job which unfortunately never made it. The brief was to design two cheeky characters which would encourage people to do a little 'Moe' exercise and eat a little 'Les'. It was a lot of fun coming up with the designs and thinking of the various mischievous things they could do. Although it would have been CG I wanted to try out a kind of illustrative feel with lots of texture. Ah well. Here's the initial little thumbnails that I always start with...

... and a few with them in various costumes. I thought they'd be the sort of chaps who'd like to dress up a lot...

And here's some characters and environments worked up in Photoshop...

Life Drawings and others.

To balance out all the cars here's a few drawings of people. FIrst one is of Cathy. I did it on the iPad in Sketchbook Pro and then added some grunge with Photoforge...

This one of Finn was done the same way...

... and here's some done with real pencils and pens. I think the pencil ones were about 10 mins and the marker about 5...